lol couldn't someone have written this 20 years ago about cds. you can skip, they're not vinyl, wah wah wah. it's not hard to relisten to things, this shit is dumb.
lol couldn't someone have written this 20 years ago about cds. you can skip, they're not vinyl, wah wah wah. it's not hard to relisten to things, this shit is dumb.
It's not so much the medium, it's FOMO. Too much choice.
re:rkm, I have a theory that FOMOphobia (the fear of experiencing the fear of missing out) can drive ppl to experiences that they themselves profess to be unsatisfying but I think that's a whole other thing. I'm not sure if too much choice is really a problem. like yeah sure sometimes it can be like oh I want to listen to this krautrock thing but wait there's this highlife thing or some new insanity doing unheard things with sonorizations of data from NASA about times when Earth was almost struck by a meteor, and a million other things that seem like they'd be great. times like that can be overwhelming. but I'll still pick one, because none of those qualities have any value if I'm never experiencing them. so I think anyone who has a problem there and aren't building up significance with music because there's too much of it, those people are being silly and they'd find a way to be silly in the past as well.
lol couldn't someone have written this 20 years ago about cds. you can skip, they're not vinyl, wah wah wah. it's not hard to relisten to things, this shit is dumb.
It's not so much the medium, it's FOMO. Too much choice.
Exactly. Tap, I'm sure you're correct that articles were written about this subject when CDs starting replacing vinyl. CDs allowed listeners to skip, and have inferior sound quality. However, internet streaming services have stripped down music quality even more. The internet has also made skipping and moving onto the next song/artist even faster. This ties into what rkm said about too much choice. I think it is hard for an average listener to re-listen to things when there thousands of other options at one's fingertips.
I have no idea how to rank years but Ill do it anyway, here you go with my personal AOTY
2013: Kacey Musgraves- Same Trailer Different Park
> 2015: Sufjan Stevens- Carrie & Lowell
> 2012: Carina Round- Tigermending
> 2011: EMA- Past Life Martyred Saints = 2010: Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
> 2016: Mitski- Puberty 2
> 2014: Perfume Genius- Too Bright
> 2018: Jeff Rosenstock- POST
>>> 2017: Brand New- Science Fiction 😐😐😐 (yeah 2017 was not a year of the feel-good, and easily the weakest of the 2010s)
2015 is definitely #1, followed by 2012. i'll copy saiorse's format but w/ a top 3 --
2015: Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens, Ten Love Songs - Susanne Sundfør, Apocalypse, girl - Jenny Hval
2012: Born to Die - Lana Del Rey, Bloom - Beach House, The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple
2016: 22, a Million - Bon Iver, Blood Bitch - Jenny Hval, Leave Me Alone - Hinds
2017: Melodrama - Lorde, Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens, Masseduction - St. Vincent
2014: Are We There - Sharon Van Etten, Right from Real - Lydia Ainsworth, Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
2013: Same Trailer, Different Park - Kacey Musgraves, Loud City Song - Julia Holter, Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend
2010: Teen Dream - Beach House, Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
2011: Tragedy - Julia Holter, Feel It Break - Austra, The Rip Tide - Beirut
For me it's close between 2013 and 2016, which I am glad are leading so far. I will choose 2016 because of the unexpected (because of their album quality) comeback of legends like Bowie, Cohen and Radiohead, with the passing away of the first two, which bought classic pop and rock back to the spotlight.
And I agree on what StreetSpirit wrote before about internet streaming.
Despite strong competition from 2011 and 2016, I ultimately went with 2012 - plus now I see 2016 is going to win this poll even without my vote. '12 has two of my top 20 albums including one in my top five, which are perhaps my favorite albums by two of my all-time favorite artists.
Add in a phenomenal EP debut by Night Beds, some other quite underrated albums, Kendrick's GKMC, and Paul McCartney and The Beach Boys still putting out great work in the year 2012, and that's the year I had to go with.
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